Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of
permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a
dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with
the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the
ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of
theatricality to illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of
popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent
work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's
notion of the "carnivalesque" and the "dialogic," at the same time
suggesting Bakhtin's usefulness in understanding Chaucer. This book
includes chapters on how Chaucer adopts the voice of such popular
literary forms as chronicles and pious collections, on his
equivalence between his own image making and dramatic performance,
and on Chaucer's and Boccaccio's handling of the related issues of
popular understanding and the creation of illusions. The book
concludes by describing how Chaucer conflates "noise" and popular
expression, simultaneously appropriating and distancing himself
from his richest cultural context. Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
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